Article: Giving chemistry a good rap.(Science Communication)(profile on hip hop band Simple Harmonix in Motion's Allan Wong and Ryan Louie)

Forget ghettos, drugs and gangsta killings, hip hop is turning its attention to science. Graham Lawton gets down with the class of '99.

They won't be namechecking him in their research papers, but to Ryan Louie and Allan Wong, the work of a teenage New Yorker called Cool DJ Herc is at least as important as anything in this week's Science.

Herc was a DJ who, in the South Bronx of the mid-1970s, almost single handedly created a new style of music. He was into funk and rare groove - artists like James Brown, the Fatback Band and Booker T & The MGs -but he was also interested in street poetry. Cool Herc bought a microphone, combined the two and came up with ...

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